SUMMARY Using the "Capture Rectangular Region" over an xwayland app such as game in my case, makes it so spectacle doesn't copy the image properly into the clipboard, as an extra note, what is strange is that using meta + v to see the clipboard history, the captured images are present, however they cannot be pasted in any other software, like krita, discord, or anywhere else. Other capture methods such as "Capture Active window" or "Capture entire desktop" work perfectly fine, only "Capture Rectangular Region" has that behavhior. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have a xwayland window open (a game as an example) 2. Use the shortcut to trigger "Capture Rectangular Region" 3. Try to copy / paste the image in any software that supports pasting images. OBSERVED RESULT The captured images cannot be pasted anywhere. EXPECTED RESULT The captured images should paste just like any other capture methods. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This bug used to be inconsistant in the past, sometimes it happened, sometimes it didn't, recently it started just, not working at all (sorry i did not take note of the KDE updates that completely broke it, as i simply got used to dealing with the bug by just capturing the entire window/saving the image and uploading it instead)
Created attachment 179650 [details] video of the bug In this video i demonstrate the bug, i try to paste screenshots that i took with "Capture Rectangular Region", but nothing happens at all.
Hi - a couple of questions to hopefully help narrow things down: * Does pasting into a different application, like KolourPaint, LibreOffice Writer, etc. work? * Does activating a different item from the clipboard history, then re-activating the screenshot, enable it to be pasted? (Looking at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500366 ) Thanks!
(In reply to John Kizer from comment #2) > Hi - a couple of questions to hopefully help narrow things down: > > * Does pasting into a different application, like KolourPaint, LibreOffice > Writer, etc. work? > * Does activating a different item from the clipboard history, then > re-activating the screenshot, enable it to be pasted? (Looking at > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500366 ) > > Thanks! - Does pasting into a different application, like KolourPaint, LibreOffice It does not, though it's quite inconsistant, sometimes it does work, but most of the time it does not, sorry i know this is vague, but i'm genuinely not able to find a pattern. - Does activating a different item from the clipboard history, then re-activating the screenshot, enable it to be pasted? (Looking at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500366 ) Yes it does, i can reproduce this
Thanks! It sounds like it's likely a connected underlying issue, so I'm merging this together with that other existing report since some exploration has already been done there. Hopefully bringing together more examples of how it manifests can help with eventually identifying a solution :-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 500366 ***